Futures Thinking Training Programs for Organisations

Give your team or organisation the opportunity to work closely together to explore the future and learn how to apply strategic foresight. Reach out now and let us tailor our training programmes to your organisational needs.

Contact senior advisor and futurist Simon Østergaard:

Transform Valuable Foresight Into Actionable Insight

When you decide to actively engage into the same learning experience as your colleagues, the learning outcome automatically becomes "stickier" throughout the organisation. This way, you can integrate foresight and futures thinking into your organisational processes and strategic decision-making.

Hands-on Learning by Experts

All our training programmes are designed by our experts who bring their knowledge and expertise from working daily with strategic foresight and futures-oriented issues. The instructor-led training is built around maximum engagement and actionable, hands-on learning, with the right balance between relevant theory and tangible strategic foresight tools for your professional work.

All training programmes are tailored to your organisational needs.

EXPLORE OUR TRAINING PROGRAMMES

Bootcamp - Using the Future

Futures Thinking and Foresight Fundamentals

Small steps can eventually make a big impact. Our Bootcamp is designed as an inspiring introduction to the fundamentals of futures thinking and foresight, with the aim of cultivating a "futures mindset". This will better enable you to "use the future" to inform decisions made both today and tomorrow.

The bootcamp will provide you with:

  • A robust introduction to the practices of futures thinking and foresight, as well as key concepts and approaches from the futures thinking and foresight toolbox
  • An increased consciousness of how our understanding of the future guides decisions today
  • A better awareness of how cognitive biases and path-dependent thinking can impair our ability to see beyond existing systems and thinking patterns
  • The opportunity to build knowledge and cultivate a "futures mindset" for your own futures thinking, which will lower the mental barriers for integrating futures thinking and foresight into your workflow, projects and organisational processes

The Bootcamp can be facilitated live-online or in person as a three to four hour session or a full day. The session consists of a mixture of inspiring presentations, short exercises, and reflections - for up to 30 participants.

Prices starting from 50.000 DKK

Course - Applied Strategic Foresight

Bringing Futures Thinking and Foresight into Strategy

This programme unites futures thinking and foresight with strategy and dives deeper into the application of different tools and techniques for better strategy and policy anticipation. It is based on a case relevant to your team and takes participants through both a thorough foresight process and on how to transition from foresight outcomes to strategic and policy action.  

The course will provide you with:

  • Solid insights into the megatrends that shape the future and how they may affect your organisational environment
  • An introduction to the practice of strategic foresight and experience with applying practical tools from the futures thinking and foresight toolbox
  • The ability to recognise and make sense of trends and developments, as well as a structured process for understanding dynamics of change influencing your future organisational environment
  • The ability to co-create alternative views on the future and frame robust alternative futures with decision-making relevance
  • The opportunity to build knowledge and cultivate a "futures mindset" for your own futures thinking
  • A deep understanding of how to always connect foresight to strategic purpose in order to operationalise foresight outcomes into actionable strategic and policy action-steps that inspire change

The course is designed to be highly experiential and can be facilitated live-online with multiple three to four hour sessions, or in-person at our location in Copenhagen or at your organisation over the course of two to three days.

Prices starting from 100.000 DKK

Bootcamp - Global Megatrends 2030

The Megatrends that will shape the world and our lives in years to come

This programme helps organisations with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental forces of change known as global Megatrends. These are high-level drivers of change that shape long term development across societies. Megatrend analysis sits at the core of most strategic foresight work since many of the drivers that will shape development in the longer term will emerge from outside of the organisation's operational environment.

The bootcamp will provide you with:

  • Solid insights into the Megatrends that shape the future and how they may affect your organisational environment
  • Confidence in applying Megatrend analysis in a structured manner to silence the distracting noise of the "here and now" to focus on longer term developments your organisation is confronting
  • A strong foundation to deepen and enhance how you and your organisation think over the long term about strategy and deceision-making
  • The opportunity to build knowledge and cultivate a "foresight mindset" for your own strategic thinking

The Bootcamp can be facilitated live-online or in person as a three to four hour session or a full day. The session consists of a mixture of inspiring presentations, short exercises, and reflections - for up to 30 participants.

Prices starting from 50.000 DKK

Interested in our bootcamps or courses? Contact senior advisor and futurist Simon Østergaard:

Testimonials

”CIFS designed a two-day training program exclusively for us as an inspiring introduction to the essentials of strategic foresight. In our Open Innovations Lab team we wanted to unite futures thinking and foresight with strategy and dive deeper into the application of different tools and techniques. It was very rewarding to carve out time to think about the future for the whole team. The facilitators did a fantastic job in guiding and encouraging us along the way with a genuine passion for foresight”
Lead Futurist & Project Manager, SURF

Would you like to learn more?

Reach out to talk about how we can support your organisation in building internal futures thinking and foresight capabilities.